Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

The only way to write a great book is to write it with the eyes of a child who sees things for the first time.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

Make love to every woman you meet; if you get five per cent of your outlay it's a good investment.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Procrastination is suicide on the installment plan.